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Our chosen computational model, a fully connected on-center off-surround recurrent neural network previously employed for enumeration\/individuation, demonstrates the potential to extract both summary statistics and achieve high individuation accuracy. Notably, our results show that the individuation accuracy can reach close to perfection within a presentation duration of 100 ms, but not so for summarization. We have also shown a spatially varying excitation version of the network that can explain quite a few interesting spatio-temporal patterns of perception. 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